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What if your kid loved school so much they鈥檇 rather be there than on vacation?
Yesterday, I went to a session on Alpha School, which runs out of Austin and is opening a campus in NYC this fall. Their claim?
- Kids love school (90%+ say so, 60% prefer it over vacation)
- Kids learn 2x faster in half the time
- Kids develop real-life skills like public speaking & financial literacy
Here鈥檚 what I learned: 馃У馃憞
Alpha isn鈥檛 the right fit for everyone.
- Not great for students with severe learning disabilities
Parents who prefer traditional structure & oversight may struggle
- 5-10% of students drop out because they don鈥檛 adjust well
- It works best for self-directed learners who thrive with independence.
My take:
- I'm interested enough for my 9 year old daughter to learn more
- I worry about how humanities are taught, can an app really replace passionate teachers and high quality discussion?
- When you meet the students, it's hard not to be impressed
alpha.school/
But what about things that even wealthy people don鈥檛 have access to? How about a personal reality enhancer:
- Perfect memory of every conversation
- Real-time guidance during interactions based on your goals
- Pattern recognition across your entire life
The truth? There's no going back. Intelligence, like music, is about to go from scarce to abundant. The only question is: How do we build a world that harnesses this abundance for everyone?
I feel like people don鈥檛 talk enough about what it was like going to college in the late 90s. In 1999, music was precious. By 2001, it was infinite. That shift taught me something about the coming intelligence revolution. A thread on abundance, resistance, and why we can't even imagine what's coming... 馃У
I have a friend who never sees a bill. He has someone whose full-time job is to manage all of his finances. Imagine: A financial brain that never sleeps. Constantly optimizing every bill, subscription, investment. Finding tax opportunities you didn't know existed.
Today, we're at the edge of something bigger: Not just music going infinite. Intelligence is about to go infinite. Someone once said (maybe @paulg?). A good way to forecast the future is to figure out what rich people do today and assume that the middle class will be doing it in 10-20 years. That鈥檚 probably a good place to start.
Of course, there was backlash. Napster got shut down. Legal threats flew. Metallica went to war. But the dam had broken. Music was now infinite. The industry collapsed and rebuilt around abundance.
Then college happened. Broadband + Napster. Type in any song, hit download, start listening instantly. It was like someone unlocked the universe's infinite music library. For the first time, we weren't bound by scarcity. All of the sudden I could listen to every song Van Morrison ever made, not just the album Moondance.